Marco Arment Quotes
If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.
Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.
Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.
Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
